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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






2. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






3. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






4. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






5. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






6. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






7. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






8. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






9. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






10. The person who 'tells' the story.






11. The time and place of a story or play.






12. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






13. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






14. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






15. A strong pause within a line.






16. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






17. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






18. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






19. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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20. The organizational form of a literary work.






21. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






22. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






23. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






24. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






25. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






26. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






27. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






28. Broken down acts.






29. A three-line stanza.






30. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






31. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






32. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






33. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






34. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






35. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






36. The selection of words in a literary work.






37. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






38. A poem that tells a story.






39. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






40. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






41. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






42. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






43. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






44. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






45. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






46. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






47. The main character of a literary work.






48. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






49. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






50. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.